The Veteran's TDIU claim is granted from February 8, 2017. The VA has remanded the cases for further development regarding her left knee and left lower extremity scars.
The deciding factor: The VA needs to conduct additional examinations to assess the current severity of the Veteran's service-connected left knee total joint replacement and left lower extremity scars.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee total joint replacement, painful scar of the left knee, left lower extremity scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 21, 2018
- Citation
- 18113191
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for increased ratings due to inadequate VA examinations and potential overlap of symptomatology.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for TDIU, finding that his service-connected disabilities do not prevent him from securing and following substantially gainful employment.
- Denied
The Board denied the claims for earlier effective dates and increased ratings, granted an earlier effective date for left lower extremity scars, but did not assign a compensable rating for them from August 23, 2023.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for increased ratings of the Veteran's bilateral knee disabilities to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors, including obtaining any outstanding non-VA treatment records and clarifying the Veteran's surgical history.
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